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Evolution

Why the Wheel Is Round Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226599687, ISBN: HB: 9780226381039, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 81 halftones, 64 line drawings

There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates – be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel – a rotational mechanism that accomplishes w...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Weather: An Illustrated History From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change

Revkin Andrew, Mechaley Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9781454921400, GMC Group, Sterling, June 2018
224 pp., 22.2x17.2 cm, illus.

Colourful and captivating, "Weather: An Illustrated History" traces the history of weather and meteorology from prehistory to today's headlines in accessible, bite-sized stories. The descriptions touch on such varied topics as Earth's first atmospher...

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History

Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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Dogs

What Is a Dog?

Coppinger Raymond, Coppinger Lorna

ISBN: PB: 9780226478227, ISBN: HB: 9780226127941, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates, 13 halftones, 4 line drawings

Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are five times as many dogs who are their own masters – neighborhood dogs, dump...

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Earth Sciences

Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...

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Birds

Where Song Began Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

Low Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300221664, Yale University Press, August 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution. Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the bi...

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Birds

Ecology

Why Birds Matter Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services

Sekercioglu Cagan H., Wenny Daniel G., Whelan Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382630, ISBN: HB: 9780226382463, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 6 line drawings, 8 tables

For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds' beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide. But while...

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Mammals

Wattana An Orangutan in Paris

Herzfeld Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226168593, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

She likes tea, sews, draws on papers and is a self-taught master of tying and untying knots. But she is not a crafty woman of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives in the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it is in Paris where Chris H...

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Birds

Welcome to Subirdia Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

Marzluff John M., DeLap Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300216875, ISBN: HB: 9780300197075, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

"Welcome to Subirdia" presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of ou...

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Cartography

Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

Carlton Genevieve

ISBN: HB: 9780226255316, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In "Worldly Consumers", Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to priva...

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